An account of the exercises at the dedication and presentation to the city of Boston of the O'Reilly Monument, June 20, 1896 (1897)
Boston (Mass.). City Council · Boston : Printed by order of the City Council · leaf 38
d give greater satisfaction to nocitizen of Boston than to OReilly himself, if hewere with us today. But it is not only or even chiefly because this memo-rial is a work of art that I esteem the privilegaccepting it. It was its existance to the lovingremembrance of a man who gained in a… … Th£ ;//; ,W MEMORIAL SERVICES. departed talent or worth that this monument wasconceived, nor is it in any such spirit that it Lb nowdedicated. It needed no official action, no appropriation «>fpublic money to place with the sculptor the com-rion which he has now executed. The munici-pality of…
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Monuments
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